Soichiro Honda

       Soichiro Honda was born in November 6, 1906 Yamahigashi, Komyo-village (present day Tenryu-shi), Iwata-county, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan . He died in September 5, 1991.Juntendo University Hospital, Japan Soichiro Honda, who designed a number of motorcycles and cars, was the founder of one of the world’s leading manufacturers of automobiles and the largest manufacturer of motorcycles. A child of rural Japan, he had no completed engineering education, and knew nothing of marketing, finance or distribution. His accomplishments were made over the opposition of the zaibatsu (Japanese conglomerates), which considered him an outsider and rebel, but he changed both the motorcycle and automobile industries more than any other person in the world. Soichiro Honda took a stagnant and dormant market and made it dynamic and exciting. Honda invented a new concrete-making process, developed a cast iron-spoke wheel, and made over a hundred other inventions. Honda designed very competitive motorcycles and became a world-class carmaker with the S600, the Civic, the Accord, the NSX, the EP-X, the EVX, the Saber, the Acura, and the Legend. Today his company, the Honda Motor Company, founded after World War II, is the largest firm in Japan and the fourth largest carmaker in the world. In motorcycles, Honda dominates the industry, shipping over four million cycles per year and comprising 80 percent of the worldwide market.